How to Use monolith in a Sentence

monolith

noun
  • The media monolith owns a number of networks.
  • The new office building is a massive steel and concrete monolith.
  • The movement to pare back the role of police isn't a monolith, though.
    CNN, 17 June 2020
  • The sun shot right down the hallway, hitting the monolith and the stone marker.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
  • While Latinos tend to vote for Democrats, the group is by no means a monolith.
    Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Ropes were then placed around the monolith, then chains, but the stubborn stone wouldn’t yield.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 3 June 2020
  • The Tafoni is a 50-foot monolith that juts up from a forested slope on the edge of a canyon.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • By the third cycle, the monoliths were removing 75% of the PFOA in three hours.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2024
  • The brick monoliths along the French River were once the economic heartbeat of the town.
    Denise Coffey, courant.com, 10 June 2019
  • It has been said too many times over the last week, but Black voters are no monolith.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • There is no monolith, no secret base on the rim of a lunar crater.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Yet, investors should be aware that tech is not a monolith.
    Jon Markman, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • The monolith found in the Nevada desert appears similar to the ones found in 2020.
    Christopher Brito, CBS News, 18 June 2024
  • Read more about the first days of the monolith’s appearance in Bellvue here.
    Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 3 July 2024
  • This one appeared a few days after the monolith in the Utah desert was removed.
    Brett Harman, CNN, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Even her show's title is meant to fight against monoliths.
    Whitney Friedlander, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
  • But not everyone wants, or has space for, a huge monolith of a PC in their home.
    Harry Rabinowitz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The bottom line: There are no monoliths in this election.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 18 July 2024
  • The Xbox Series X is a Kubrickian black monolith with a weird grate and an alien green light on top.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The movement is not a monolith, and looks different from state to state.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Joe can’t think of their union like some sort of non-eroding stone, a monolith to their romance.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2021
  • This is not to say that the AAPI community is a monolith.
    NBC News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • To be more precise a pair of Prada monolith boots, straight off the catwalk.
    Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Which is kind of the point as Black people, and the Black experience, is not a monolith.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Fidel is dead, his ashes tucked away in a monolith that looks like a prop from the Flintstones movie.
    Carlos Eire, National Review, 14 July 2021
  • No group in the U.S. is a monolith, although research has treated them as such.
    Mario Carrasco, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • But Phish was in the midst of the first of two shows in the Fens, ostensibly home turf for the jam band monolith that was based in Burlington, Vt.
    Jeremy D. Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
  • The mysterious origins of the monoliths led some to think they were brought by UFOs.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2024
  • Tribal voting patterns vary The Indigenous vote is not a monolith and depends on many factors.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The Middle Eastern communities of Michigan are not a monolith and have diverse backgrounds and views.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2024

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